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I have a "rescued" pair of coastal carpets that were very thin when I got them. They were several years old and the previous owner was still feeding mice. They have grown tremendously since I got them and are now 7ft plus but still have a very slender build. I previously had a pair of jungles that had become relatively more heavy bodied before they got this long. Are these 2 likely to beef up yet?

Short answer, Mo, but they will keep growing.

Carpets are a very slender species, and there is no need to bulk them up, there feeding responses make them very easy to make obese.

I have a 10 ft monster sized female mcdowelli, and shes no bigger than a water bottle around, but a good 20 or so lbs id imagine.

It also depends on the species of carpet...some are smaller than others, I have a 7 year old coastal that refused to eat for a year for some odd reason and is only 5 ft...Have given up on her breeding entirely.
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Pat
"You keep WHAT in your freezer?" "Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

1.1 Ill never tell...
1.0 100% het granite ij
0.1 granite ij
1.0 Jag 50% het granite
.2 striped coastals (Baylin)
1.2 Coastal Carpet Pythons
1.3 Jaguar carpet pythons (Australian addiction reptiles)
.2 Tiger Carpet (Dave prada HCQ with Baylin tiger)
1.2 centralian carpets
1.1 Irian Jaya carpets (boa cabana)
1.1 Jungle carpets (Futo)
1.1 Guyana Red tail boa
1.1 Water pythons Liasis fuscus
1.0 Brazilian rainbow boa
.1 Pitbull Wolfe mix

I have a 7' female IJCP that only takes mice (or small rabbits), so she gets 8 thawed mice at a time.